Sooo SE actually wants to know the numbers of PS2 users eh?

[Volkai]

Blah. You clearly haven't been reading this thread, and the other one specifically dedicated to finding cheap hardware. Computers that can run FFXI better than the PS2 ever will are available fully assembled from legitimate stores from $40 upwards (which I found out after a 30 seconds Google search for "cheap computers"). I posted links a few pages back.

News to me. I've yet to see any computer worth using that is sold for less than USD$100. Especially one that includes, say, a monitor. If it doesn't come with everything you need to play FFXI, you have to add those extra parts piecemeal to the total cost, or else you're misreperesenting the cost involved.

Again, blah. As we've said before, MMORPGs are different than other games. Did you play Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES for eigth years? Can't be compared. FFXI evolves, it's not static. You can't possibly argue that the current FFXI is the same as the one eigth years ago (to scale, it has more than tripled in size since then). So again, no argument there.

Actually I DID play Super Mario Bos. 3 on the NES for eight years. Similarly, I STILL play The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the SNES that I acquired in 1993. I like to play old games as well as new ones. Just like I STILL play FINAL FANTASY XI: Online.

The problem you have here is not with my refutation of Rayik's analogy, but with Rayik's analogy. Address that.